Astronomers have revealed the brightest fast radio burst ever recorded, hovering at a distance of about 130 million light-years. This discovery was made possible by recent enhancements to the CHIME telescope, opening a promising new window into distant cosmic phenomena.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have pinpointed the origin of a mysterious fast radio burst to the immediate vicinity of a rotating neutron star, or magnetar. Using an innovative technique involving scintillation, researchers determined that the burst originated just 10,000 kilometers from the star, offering the first conclusive evidence linking these cosmic phenomena to magnetospheres.